v.
 (robs, robbing, robbed)
  - take property unlawfully from (a person or place) by force or threat of force. 
▸informal or dialect steal (something).
 ▸informal overcharge.
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(rob someone of)
 deprive someone of (something needed or deserved).
 
 
  Phrase
  
    
      - rob Peter to pay Paul
 deprive one person of something in order to pay another. 
[prob. with ref. to the saints and apostles Peter and Paul.]
 
    
   
  Derivative
  
  Etymology
  ME: from OFr. rober, of Gmc origin; rel. to reave.